article on the solar system..." On taking up the post in Clonfert, Law hired the mathematician John Howard as his steward, but dispensed with Howard's services in 1786 after "an unfortunate marriage". Law was translated to Killala and Achonry on 10 November 1787. On learning that almost the whole population of his new see were Roman Catholics, he commented: "That as it was a hopeless task to make them protestants, it would answer every desirable purpose to make them good catholicks." At his own expense, Law then distributed throughout the diocese a new edition of the Rev. John Gother's The Sincere Christian's Guide in the Choice of Religion. He was translated again to become Bishop of Elphin in 1795, being nominated on 11 March and appointed by letters patent on 27 March. He died in Dublin on 18 March 1810 and was buried in the Chapel of Trinity College, where he had founded prizes for mathematics. Family On 17 January 1782, while living in Carlisle, Law married Anne Thomlinson, a daughter of the Rev. William Plaskett and widow of John Thomlinson of Blencogo, Cumberland, but they had no children. His wife, born on 4 August 1741, was the half-sister of James Wallace, barrister, of Featherstone Castle, Member of Parliament, Solicitor General and Attorney General, and the aunt of Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace. Law was the elder brother of Ewan Law (1747–1829), of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818), who became Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and of George Henry Law (1761–1845), Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Bath and Wells. Another brother, Thomas Law (1756–1834), was a business man who settled first in British India and then in 1793 in the United States, where he married as his second wife Eliza Parke Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington. Eliza and Thomas Law divorced in 1811. Publications A Sermon preached at the Visitation of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London: in the church of Thaxted, in Essex, on Wednesday, 28 May 1778 (1778) Sermon preached in Christ Church, Dublin, before the Incorporated Society (1796) Sermon preached in St Paul's Cathedral, London, at the meeting of the charity school children (1797) References 1745 births 1810 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge English mathematicians Fellows of the Royal Society Archdeacons of Carlisle Bishops of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh Anglican